ABILENE — Entering Day 2 of its best-of-three Region I-4A Division I bi-district series against Lubbock Estacado off a hard-fought 2-1 win on Friday, the Brownwood baseball team had a pair of chances to close out the Matadors on Saturday.

But after taking a 2-0 lead into the fourth inning of Game 2 and the sixth inning of Game 3, the Lions ended up on the wrong side of pair of one-run games at Abilene Cooper’s Cougar Field.

Estacado rallied for single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings in Saturday’s opener to grind out a 3-2 win and force a deciding third matchup, before using two-run rallies in the sixth and eighth innings to walk off with a 4-3 win in the clincher. Those outcomes spoiled an outstanding weekend of pitching for Brownwood, which allowed just four earned runs in 21.1 innings in seeing its season end at 13-18.